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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Good lord, you have it backwards.
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Wait a second, are you saying that evenodds' doesn't have standing to talk authoritatively about race, or are you saying that she in some ways is being offensive when she is talking about a race that is not her own?
If it's the first, I don't understand why a person has to be of a particular minority to comment on issues relating to that minority. Does that mean that I can't talk about gay culture from time to time with authority, even though I'm not a gay man. I care a great deal about gay culture, and my brother is gay. I spend a hell of a lot of time with gay men. I don't know the plight of every gay person, or even any gay person, because I'm not gay and I'll never fully understand exactly what that means. But I have some insight to what I see around me, and I care very much that my brother is not hurt by idiots and bigots. So if I see an opportunity to waylay an idiot before he or she gets near someone I care about, I'm going to take it. If I see an opportunity to talk about something i know a little about, I'm going to take it, because, as my post count in general and this post in particular indicate, I like to talk.
If it's the second, you're not being very clear. Are you offended on someone else's behalf about what evenodds has to say? Or even on your own behalf, because I have no idea where you're coming from on the race spectrum. I'm not seeing her comments as offensive on their face, but I may be reading things differently than you are.
